What would you do if you wanted to make a team and worked really hard to do so and then you didn’t make it? Well, that is the situation Raj Bhavsar finds himself in.
Four years ago during the Athens Olympics, Bhavsar made the Olympic team as an alternate. This year he again made the team as an alternate although he was extremely close to automatically making the team. He performed well on the rings and the vault in which he secured third place and on the parallel bars where he scored second. He would have automatically made the team if he had been second instead of third in the all-around competition and missed making the team by .08 of a point.
Being an alternate means that Bhavsar will only be allowed to compete if one of the six members on the team cannot compete for some reason. Paul Hamm, a member of the men’s Olympic gymnastics team, has a broken bone in his right hand and if it does not heal in time for the Beijing Olympics, Bhavsar may have a chance to compete in place of Hamm. Both Hamm and Bhavsar have worked very hard and have come so close to competing in Beijing that it will be a tragedy for one of them.
Not making a team is hard to deal with, especially if you have worked hard and put your all into it. Bhavsar came very close twice but did not make the team twice even though he is such an accomplished gymnast. Comment below and tell me about your experiences with trying out for a team and competing.
1 comment:
Since he has worked so hard and learned from trying, he should tryout for another team and se what their standards are or tryout for another competition. He's only getting better and better. This way, he is building up credentials.
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